Beijing 2 - The Great Wall, a Birds Nest and other stories
September 24th 2017 This was the last full day of our Trans-Siberian Odyssey and ‘full’ it certainly was. On the way down to breakfast I spotted something in the lift that I had noticed before; there was no fourth floor! Apparently, the number four is unlucky in Chinese culture as it has the same pronunciation in Cantonese as the word ‘<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">death’.
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